Factors that affect monitoring and controlling practices on public building construction projects in Jimma zone.

Abstract

Construction industry is an industry, which is concerned within the Initiating, planning, execution, Monitoring and controlling& Closing of all types of civil works. Now a days in Ethiopia construction industries were booming due to implementing major infrastructure projects together with many public buildings, Office building, Staff residential, High school building construction project. The study aims at identifying were to factors that affect monitoring and controlling practices on public building construction in Jimma Zone from the view point of different respondents including Clients, Consultants, Contractors, Regulatory and other who have experience in public building construction and provides recommendations with reference to handling of construction building. About 66 Factors were identified through literature review and grouped into six groups. Respondents were required to rate how 66 factors of project monitoring and controlling practices with respect to their importance. The 6 groups of factors which have significant impact on the project monitoring and controlling practices are ranked depending on their RII as: Communication Factor, Cost Factor, Stakeholder engagement Factor, Schedule factors, Quality Factor and Scope factor. According to the result of the study the top factors of project monitoring and controlling practices includes: Price fluctuation, Shortage of material, Lack of communication between parties, Inadequate design without site investigation, Cost variations, Scope change within time, cost and quality change, Payment delay, Schedule changes and Delays in decisions making. The major impact lack of monitoring and controlling practices are time delay, cost increase and quality factors from initial contract on this project are originated by the employer, contractor, regulatory and consultant. The selected projects are comprises of the completed three and one ongoing projects and those critically suffering by abandonment and/or termination of the contract. Gatta high school, Sombo Dosha high school and Kusaye high school are the completed projects and Ilke High school is under construction projects. It’s recommended that building construction organization assign project manager and construction supervisors with sufficient management skills in project, minimize Accident and any safety problems, develop human resources through proper and continuous training programs frame a strong assignment, vision and a planned approach to overcome poor project monitoring and controlling. It’s recommended that the government should consider as major concern, to enforce hard and fast laws and regulation that help to obtain practices work force in the building construction.